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Famous Enlace Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Enlace poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous enlace poems. These examples illustrate what a famous enlace poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Browning, Robert
...?
``A lady of clay is as good, I trow.''

But long ere Robbia's cornice, fine,
With flowers and fruits which leaves enlace,
Was set where now is the empty shrine---

(And, leaning out of a bright blue space,
As a ghost might lean from a chink of sky,
The passionate pale lady's face---

Eyeing ever, with earnest eye
And quick-turned neck at its breathless stretch,
Some one who ever is passing by---)

The Duke had sighed like the simplest wretch
In Florence, ``Youth---my dr...Read more of this...



by Benet, Stephen Vincent
...he march of slow wind through trees, 
Or the great soft passage of clouds in a sky at rest. 

I kneel, and our arms enlace, and we kiss long, long. 
I am drowned in her as in sleep. There is no more pain. 
Only the rustle of flames like a broken song 
That rings half-heard through the dusty halls of the brain. 

One shaking and fragile moment of ecstasy, 
While the grey gloom flutters and beats like an owl above. 
And I would not move or speak for the ...Read more of this...

by Hardy, Thomas
...-
A plane: he barked him strip by strip
From upper bough to base;
And me therewith; for gone my grip,
My arms could not enlace.

In new affection next I strove
To coll an ash I saw,
And he in trust received my love;
Till with my soft green claw
I cramped and bound him as I wove...
Such was my love: ha-ha!

By this I gained his strength and height
Without his rivalry.
But in my triumph I lost sight
Of afterhaps. Soon he,
Being bark-bound, flagged, snapp...Read more of this...

by Browning, Robert
...? 
A lady of clay is as good, I trow." 

But long ere Robbia's cornice, fine, 
With flowers and fruits which leaves enlace, 
Was set where now is the empty shrine -- 

(And, leaning out of a bright blue space, 
As a ghost might lean from a chink of sky, 
The passionate pale lady's face -- 
Eyeing ever, with earnest eye 

And quick-turned neck at its breathless stretch, 
Some one who ever is passing by --) 
The Duke had sighed like the simplest wretch 

In Florence, "Youth...Read more of this...

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